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==Biography== Shaaban was born to a father of [[Yao people (East Africa)|Yao]] decent and mother of [[Digo people|Digo]] heritage at village of Vibamba, [[Tangasisi]] ward of [[Tanga District]], located south of [[Tanga, Tanzania|Tanga City]] in [[Tanga Region]], Tanzania (then [[German East Africa]]). The surname Robert is a name of a British colonial officer who requested his parent to name him after him. Thus in real sense, Robert was his second name (not his surname or last name), his first name being Shaaban. Shaaban himself for a time wrote it 'Roberts' rather than 'Robert'. From 1922 to 1926 he was educated in [[Dar es Salaam]], coming in second in a class of 11 to receive the School Leaving Certificate under the then British colonial educational system in Tanganyika.<ref name=shaaban/> ===Career=== After receiving the school certificate, Shaaban worked at various posts as a colonial government civil servant. From 1926 to 1944 he was a customs official at different locations throughout the territory including one post at Kwale Island in current day [[Mkuranga District, Pwani|Mkuranga District]] of [[Pwani Region]]. From 1944 to 1946 he worked for the Game Department. From 1946 to 1952 he worked in the Tanga District Office, and from 1952 to 1960 he was in the Survey Office there. He worked very closely with the [[Tanganyika African National Union]] (TANU) and [[Julius Nyerere]]. Many of his civil service experiences are woven into his writings. During his lifetime he received the [[Margaret Wrong Prize and Medal for African Literature]] and was honored by the British government as a [[Order of the British Empire|Member of the Order of the British Empire]] (M.B.E.).<ref name=shaaban/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/africa/scripts/awards1.php?award=115 |title=Margaret Wrong Prize and Medal for African Literature |publisher=Indiana University |accessdate=6 January 2015}}</ref>
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